WaPo Crossword January 3, 2021 (And Cut!)

I am a huge fan of Evan Birnholz's puzzles, and his last puzzle of 2020 is a must-solve for any crosswords fan. After a tour de force like that, one can be forgiven for a more modest, but still fun, Sunday solve.

January 3, 2021 ("And Cut!")

Time: ~10:55

The bubbles each spell out a move, but they are split across multiple clues. A fun one because you can either know the two parts separately or recognize the film.

• 24A / 25A Mascara site / 1953 western directed by George Stevens / Began ___ (started over): "LASH / ANEW" (SHANE)
• 30A / 33A Sister of Peter Rabbit / 1960 thriller set at the Bates Motel / Food, informally: "FLOPSY / CHOW" (PSYCHO)
• 35A / 36A Oslo Accords grp. / 1961 romantic drama starring Anouk Aimee / ___ Vegas: "PLO / LAS" (LOLA)
• 46A / 47A Author Munro / 2002 animated comedy featuring a woolly mammoth / Movie star's representative: "ALICE / AGENT" (ICE AGE)
• 49A / 50A Tiny tunneler / 1981 drama that follows a group of military trainees / See 80 Down [with 50 Across, dogs first brought as gifts from the Dalai Lama in the 1930s]: "ANT / [LHASA] APSOS" (TAPS) (Sidenote: what a mouthful)
• 66A / 69A Best director award / 1983 crime drama about the drug lord Tony Montana / Aspect: "OSCAR / FACET" (SCARFACE)
• 87A / 88A Parish priest / 2006 animated film with Piston Cup racers / Take a load off: "VICAR / SIT" (CARS)
• 89A / 90A Pulsate / 1995 historical drama set in 18th-century Scotland / Rolls-____: "THROB / ROYCE" (ROB ROY)
• 100A / 101A Hair goo / 2016 thriller for which Isabelle Huppert was nominated for an Academy Award / "My Name is Asher ___" (Chaim Potok novel): "GEL / LEV" (ELLE)
• 102A / 103A Blood fluids / 1996 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger / "All-Night Vigil" composer Rachmaninoff: "SERA / SERGEI" (ERASER)
• 112A / 113A Linux predecessor / 1995 historical drama that begins at the Watergate Hotel / Black gem: "UNIX / ONYX" (NIXON)
• 114A Film technique showing a divided frame...and what's spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's 11 divided films "SPLITSCREEN"

At first, I was concerned that this was just about splitting movie titles apart. But Evan Birnholz never disappoints and of course, the movies all were connected. A terrific Sunday puzzle. Other clues and answers of note:

• 7D Deflect, as an epee: "PARRY". It's always fun to see a crossword favorite like "epee" show up in a clue.
• 58A "Frozen" freezer: "ELSA". I'm also a sucker for alliteration, especially when it clues Elsa in a different way.
• 70D Five-time Silver Slugger Award winner Robinson ___: "CANO". Those Silver Slugger Awards are quite blah when you realize he has multiple PED suspensions.

I give this puzzle 23 personalities out of 24 ("Split"...screen, gonna leave the Beast out of it).